Following the command "gentlemen, start your engines," at the 1972 Indianapolis 500, a specially built Hurst/Olds convertible will guide the way for the 33 Championship cars. And after a couple of ...

What’s the link between a performance-shifting hardware company, a marvelous Soviet technological achievement, and the only time a racing driver won the Indy 500 on his birthday? An astronaut, of ...

Before he had a working relationship with Oldsmobile, and well before the creation of the Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds, George Hurst had a history with Pontiac. Hurst shifters were installed in the 1964 ...

The Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds didn’t begin as an Oldsmobile model, but rather developed from George Hurst’s relationship with Pontiac. The whole thing began when Pontiac installed Hurst shifters in the ...